Grain merchant.
Born at Brighton, Ontario in 1890, son of Alexander J. Campbell and Mary E. Pettigrew, he worked for James Richardson and Sons, first at Kingston, Ontario and later moving to Winnipeg in 1927. He retired from the company as Secretary-Treaurer, in 1956. He was then a citizen member of the Winnipeg Traffic Commission into the 1960s, for which he was given a City of Winnipeg Community Service Award (c1966).
On 29 June 1921, he married Alice Mary Reynolds (1896-1966) at Leeds, Ontario and they had a daughter, Mary Caroline Campbell (c1922-1977, wife of Arthur Dexter Gynn). The family lived at 215 Waverley Street. He served as President of the Manitoba Club (1955-1957), a member of the St. Charles Country Club, Lakewood Country Club, Masons (Assiniboine Lodge), and Khartum Shriners, and a life member of the Pine Ridge Golf Club and Canadian Cancer Society.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 4 September 1972 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
Ontario marriage registration, Ancestry.
“Gynn-Campbell wedding is solemnized at evening,” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 June 1947, page 9.
Obituary [Alice Mary Campbell], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 August 1966, page 25.
Canadian Voters Lists, 1935-1980, Ancestry.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 7 September 1972.
Obituary [Mary Gynn], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1977, page 73.
Obituary [Arthur Dexter Gynn], Dignity Memorial.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 August 2024
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